The Linux Foundation - hypervisorhttp://www.linuxfoundation.org/taxonomy/term/35/0
enA round of game changing Open Source - Issue #2 of Opensourc3 Magazinehttp://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/round-game-changing-open-source-issue-2-opensourc3-magazine
<p>This month &nbsp;we are &nbsp;very pleased to release an exciting new issue of opensourc3. The opensourc3 staff would like to thank &nbsp;all of the readers who helped make &nbsp;the first issue of opensourc3 a great &nbsp;success. The Packet Generation with ScaPY article has been postponed to Issue 3. I made the decision due to the early release of the Open &nbsp;vSwitch project to run the Open &nbsp;vSwitch article in this issue instead of next month. &nbsp;I apologize for any inconvenience this may have &nbsp;caused readers looking forward to the ScaPY article, but we will run it next month.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This issue is packed with articles on a number of exciting and &nbsp;game changing Open&nbsp;Source technologies. First, there &nbsp;is an article on Ksplice, a utility that enables live kernel patching, eliminating the need to reboot &nbsp;the system to apply a kernel patch. This is followed by an article on Image versus Package Management. Package Management is by no means obsolete, but in Unified and Cloud Computing environments, for speed and&nbsp;quality assurance Image based solutions make &nbsp;a lot more &nbsp;sense.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GlusterFS is a user-space based distributed file system, that is extremely flexible. It has a number of features specifically designed to make &nbsp;storage cheaper and &nbsp;easier to deploy in private Cloud Computing solutions. We take &nbsp;a look at migrating from a traditional web server farm to a highly distributed web architecture.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;We round &nbsp;out this second issue with an introduction to the Open &nbsp;vSwitch project, which is looking like a strong competitor to the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There &nbsp;are &nbsp;a couple of great &nbsp;events coming up this month, &nbsp;Hacker &nbsp;Halted in Miami, Florida between September 20th and &nbsp;25th. The Linux Foundation's LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon from September 21st through &nbsp;the 23rd. Of course we have &nbsp;Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus, Ohio on September 25th and &nbsp;26th. Some of the opensourc3 staff will be at Ohio LinuxFest this year, including John Buswell. The Storage Developers Conference in Santa Clara, California is running from September 14th through &nbsp;the 17th. If you are &nbsp;interested in checking out any of these events in September, they all have &nbsp;advertisements in this issue of opensourc3. There &nbsp;are &nbsp;also a number of great &nbsp;events in October and November such as ApacheCon, Utah Open &nbsp;Source Conference and &nbsp;SC World Congress.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;We expect to have &nbsp;an updated look on the opensourc3 website before September 1st, as well as both Issue 1 and &nbsp;Issue 2 in our web based on-line viewer for those who do not like PDFs. The new site also adds our RSS Subscription Feed and &nbsp;Facebook pages. As always, we appreciate the great&nbsp;feedback&nbsp;from our readers. Thanks for making opensourc3 a great &nbsp;success. &nbsp;</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Next month &nbsp;opensourc3 will look at KaOS a new Linux platform designed to provide next- generation data &nbsp;center technologies for Unified Computing and Cloud Computing solutions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please visit us at&nbsp;<a title="http://www.opensourc3.org" href="http://www.opensourc3.org/">http://www.opensourc3.org</a>&nbsp;to learn more &nbsp;or download our this issue at &nbsp;<a class="webkit-html-attribute-value webkit-html-external-link" target="_blank" href="http://download.opensourc3.org/pdf/issue1.pdf">http://download.opensourc3.org/pdf/issue2.pdf</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John Buswell Executive Editor opensourc3</p>
cloudglusterfshypervisorkspliceLinuxnetworkingOpen vSwitchopensourcepackage managementunified computingvirtualizationFri, 28 Aug 2009 18:13:03 +0000Opensourc34549 at http://www.linuxfoundation.org Opensourc3 publishes Issue #1http://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/opensourc3-publishes-issue-1
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<p class="rteleft">Today &nbsp;the data &nbsp;center is evolving, there &nbsp;are numerous emerging technologies, endless blogs, editorials and other &nbsp;commentary on some form of [INSERT YOUR FAVORITE] computing technology. While the terminology is often alien, the underlaying technology is very familiar to every &nbsp;IT professional. Those familiar technologies are &nbsp;the building blocks for the next generation data &nbsp;center. Whether its Unified Computing, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing or Grid Computing that is the flavor of the month, &nbsp;those building blocks are unlikely to fundamentally change. Each &nbsp;of these computing models needs storage, networking, compute and &nbsp;virtualization technologies. How those technologies are integrated together, deployed and managed may change, but the core &nbsp;technologies themselves are &nbsp;still needed</p>
<p class="rteleft">This publication focuses on those core technologies, the open &nbsp;source projects that provide and &nbsp;augment them, &nbsp;and &nbsp;the unique ways to leverage those technologies in your production environment. The public cloud services that are &nbsp;available today &nbsp;are &nbsp;built on top of open &nbsp;source technologies, innovative projects such as Eucalyptus and &nbsp;KVM are enabling the private cloud, and &nbsp;other &nbsp;next- generation data &nbsp;center solutions. Each &nbsp;month this publication will take &nbsp;an in-depth look at Virtualization, Storage, Compute / Applications, and Networking technologies in dedicated columns. In addition to these columns, a monthly feature article will explore and explain a related emerging technology.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal rteleft">&nbsp;This publication is targeted at Information Technology professionals. If you are &nbsp;currently (or plan to be) involved in Business / Enterprise grade Information Technology solutions, then &nbsp;this publication is for you. Whether you are &nbsp;the technical lead at a startup, system administrator at an established business or the CIO responsible for a multi-million dollar budget, this publication is designed to save you time byproviding focused and &nbsp;factual technical information on open &nbsp;source solutions.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal rteleft">In this inaugural issue, the Virtualization column takes a look at KVM, the Linux Hypervisor that for many &nbsp;is the emerging de- facto virtualization platform. This months storage article introduces iSCSI and &nbsp;examines the necessary steps to get it running in Linux. The compute column examines Puppet, an open source project designed to facilitate configuration management on large numbers of servers, whether physical or virtual. Following several interesting conversations with a number of technical trainers, it is clear that a large number of IT professionals responsible for small and medium sized business networks are &nbsp;unaware offundamental IP data &nbsp;network &nbsp;concepts. The networking column looks at several best practices when&nbsp;deploying basic IP data &nbsp;networks to lay the foundation for tomorrows larger corporate networks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal rteleft">The feature article this month &nbsp;takes a high level look at hypervisor and &nbsp;cloud technologies. What exactly is a cloud, do you need &nbsp;a private or public cloud, what are the benefits and &nbsp;how do these technologies tie in with technologies such as Unified Computing, are &nbsp;just some of the questions we try to answer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal rteleft">Please visit us at <a href="http://www.opensourc3.org" title="http://www.opensourc3.org">http://www.opensourc3.org</a> to learn more &nbsp;or download our first issue at &nbsp;<a class="webkit-html-attribute-value webkit-html-external-link" target="_blank" href="http://download.opensourc3.org/pdf/issue1.pdf">http://download.opensourc3.org/pdf/issue1.pdf</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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cloudhypervisoriSCSIKVMLinuxnetworkingopensourcePuppetunified computingvirtualizationTue, 11 Aug 2009 16:58:47 +0000Opensourc34436 at http://www.linuxfoundation.org